siglesias

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by siglesias 6y ago
The lyricism and agony of Death and the Maiden (D810), particularly in the Andante, gut me every time. Personally my favorite chamber work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Y3gHKywTQ
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by siglesias 6y ago
Whatever the effects are, what do you think three months of lockdown and closed gyms will do to the obesity rate?
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by siglesias 6y ago
There are a couple of flaws with this reply. 1. This doesn't appear to be a falsifiable position with respect to being overly conservative. Any action that results in the hospitals not being overwhelmed will be taken as somehow likely
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Hindsight Bias(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by siglesias 7y ago|0 comments
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Outcome Bias(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by siglesias 7y ago|0 comments
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by siglesias 7y ago
that's not how percentages work
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by siglesias 7y ago
What about the supply? Wouldn't the real culprit here be patents and other protections?
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Kurt Gödel: A Contradiction in the U.S. Constitution?(jeffreykegler.github.io)
1 points by siglesias 8y ago|0 comments
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by siglesias 8y ago
Citation? There seem to be cases in high technology where the market is very patient for long term returns. Case in point: AMZN trades at a 320 P/E because the market (thus far correctly) can’t see a plausible scenario in which it cede
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by siglesias 8y ago
This sort of assumes the only return from seeking a prize is the prize.
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by siglesias 9y ago
If anyone is interested in Bach's keyboard literature, it's hard to top the interpretations of Glenn Gould, a fascinating musician in his own right. Here, for example, is a seminal performance of the D minor concerto, conducted by
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by siglesias 9y ago
Good to see that nuance is alive and well.
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by siglesias 9y ago
This is slightly specious. There is an expectation that AMZN or GOOG will eventually issue dividends or repurchase shares, and there's noting fundamentally preventing them from doing so. There's no way to form a valuation otherwis
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by siglesias 9y ago
I don't find this line of argument compelling. It's a form of moral induction that specifically selects things that are still in play today (like chess) while ignoring valid warnings that altered a trend (vehicle safety) or halted
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by siglesias 9y ago
It will be interesting to see if theoretical physics and computer science converge at all over the next century. Intuitively there’s much to suggest that our understanding of computational limits on things (not to mention the idea that the
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Upthere acquired by Western Digital(blog.upthere.com)
12 points by siglesias 9y ago|0 comments
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Clock for keeping time at a rate other than human time(google.com)
1 points by siglesias 9y ago|0 comments
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Alleged Photo of Amelia Earhart Photo Dated Before Her 1937 Disappearance(tighar.org)
1 points by siglesias 9y ago|0 comments
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Why you should turn off push notifications right now(wired.co.uk)
4 points by siglesias 10y ago|1 comments
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by siglesias 10y ago
This can be difficult because everybody has been overexposed to 440, which is nearly impossible to control for. Even if you log an effect it can be argued that the effect is not of 432 but of a certain deviation from a norm.
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Piano Phase, Steve Reich (1967)(pianophase.com)
1 points by siglesias 10y ago|0 comments
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by siglesias 10y ago
Anybody else struck by the irony of the glaring "Don't miss Tristan Harris's next story" dialog at the bottom of the article? Note the verbiage exploiting Fear of Missing Something Important.
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Saving on WWDC(alex.cash)
3 points by siglesias 10y ago|0 comments
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Friction and Work(medium.com)
2 points by siglesias 11y ago|0 comments
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by siglesias 12y ago
Diversification only lowers risk. The expected value doesn't change.
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by siglesias 12y ago
I don't think anybody is claiming that science is "completely broken," but there are some who want nice, clean, logical delineations, who think that science is filling out some invisible, giant truth table. And that by each a
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by siglesias 12y ago
My point about Mercury was important because it shows that there is an appreciable level of "give" that a theory has before the scientific community agrees that there is something wrong with it. That level of give is socially dete
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by siglesias 12y ago
I think this is a very naive refutation of what the point was about Kuhn. First off, the notion that engineering "validates" science. What do you mean by validate? Do you mean successful engineering informed by a set of scientific
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by siglesias 12y ago
by the time you're physically close to it, it's too late.
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by siglesias 12y ago
Using a home presence API (like Nest's), this thing could also abstain from updating the time until you were home or in the same room as it. That could dramatically reduce wear and tear.

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